A review of the genus Maimuna Lehtinen, 1967 (Araneae, Agelenidae) in Turkey, with a description of a new species

Abstract

The records of the agelenid spider genus Maimuna Lehtinen, 1967 from Turkey are reviewed. A new species, Maimuna anatolica sp. n. is described from Muğla Province, Anatolia. The other two Turkish species of the genus are illustrated and re-diagnosed. Some discrepancies in the different diagnoses of the genus Maimuna are pointed out and discussed.

A new genus of Textricini Lehtinen, 1967 (Araneae, Agelenidae) from Anatolia

“…Agelenidae is relatively well studied in Türkiye due to several regional revisions and other taxonomic and faunistic contributions (e.g., Brignoli 1972Brignoli , 1978aKaya et al 2010;Danışman and Karanfil 2015;Danışman et al 2016;Topçu and Demircan 2018;Dimitrov 2022). Currently, there are 72 species in 16 genera of Agelenidae known from Türkiye (Danışman et al 2022;present paper) Although most of the Turkish agelenids belong to Tegenariini (including 19 endemic species), Textricini is also relatively diverse in this country (i.e., eight species in all four known genera, including one endemic genus and two endemic species; Danışman et al 2022;present paper).…”

“… Male palps of the type species of three genera belonging to Textricini : Lycosoides coarctata ( A, D ), Maimuna vestita ( B, E ) and Textrix denticulata ( C, F ) A–C ventral view D–F retrolateral view A, C, D, F courtesy of P. Oger B, E from Dimitrov (2022) , courtesy of D. Dimitrov. Abbreviation: Bd – dorsal branch of the conductor.…”

“…The terminology of one particular palpal sclerite in Maimuna has been controversial: Lehtinen (1967) suggested that a tegular (= median) apophysis is lacking (i.e., “totally reduced”) in species of this genus, which was not followed by Levy (1996) , Bolzern et al (2013) , and Dimitrov (2022) . It became evident in our examination of the expanded bulbs that all species of Maimuna indeed lack a tegular apophysis, as the structure that the aforementioned authors considered as the “median apophysis” arises from the conductor, not the tegulum.…”

“… Agelenidae is relatively well studied in Türkiye due to several regional revisions and other taxonomic and faunistic contributions (e.g., Brignoli 1972 , 1978a , b ; Kaya et al 2010 ; Danışman and Karanfil 2015 ; Danışman et al 2016 ; Topçu and Demircan 2018 ; Dimitrov 2022 ). Currently, there are 72 species in 16 genera of Agelenidae known from Türkiye ( Danışman et al 2022 ; present paper), which is considerably higher than what is known from, for example, Iran (25 species in seven genera; Zamani and Marusik 2019 , 2020 ), the entire Caucasus (36 species in 11 genera; Otto 2022 ), Greece (48 species in 12 genera; Nentwig et al 2023 ), Bulgaria (43 species in 11 genera; Nentwig et al 2023 ), Italy (58 species in 14 genera; Nentwig et al 2023 ), France (41 species in 13 genera; Nentwig et al 2023 ), and Spain (41 species in 13 genera; Nentwig et al 2023 ).…”

“… Textricini , the smallest tribe and the focus of this paper, is primarily distributed in the Mediterranean region ( WSC 2023 ). Several new species of this tribe have been described over the past few years, including five from the Maghreb ( Bosmans et al 2022 ) and one from Anatolia ( Dimitrov 2022 ).…”